Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-22
IN GENERAL.

Darnuln mas SUED tne Oranu Trunk rail-
road of Canada for damages for the loss of
Jumbo.
The Emperor of Brazil, who has been i'll
for some time, is still unable to attend to
business
Two sisters of Geo. w. Gable, the novel
ist, have moved to Northampton, Mass, in
order to live near him. They support
themselves by taking boarders.
John T. Raymond, the well-known actor,
died at Evansville Ind, of heart disease
He was taken sick there while on profess
sional tour. He was best known through
his great hit as 'Col. Sellers" in '"Ihe Gid
ed Age
1t is doubtful whether the Mayhower
crosses to sail with the Arrow in English wa
tiers after all The owner of the Arrow
wants TO make it condition that the cen
tre-board of the Mayfiower shall be drop
ped to its full extent and not raised at all,
and Gen Paine, very properly says that he
will not allow any limit to be placed on the
raising or lowering of the centre-board.
A proposition is before the Illinois legis-
lature by which it is expected that the old
home of Abraham Lincoln at Springfield
will soon pass out of Robert Lincoln's
hands and become the property of the
state. Mr.. Lincoln will not sell the prop
latter will forever keep it in repair.
While Gen. Butler has been tainted many
years for taking silver spoons and other ia
BILE ware while in New Orleans, he has new
er made any public denial. In a trial
few days ago, however, he testified that all
of the silver ware, etc, which he found
there was inventoried and turned over to
his successor, Gen. Banks, who receipted
for it, and thus treated it as Confederate
property taken for the use of the govern
ment.
Every Easter Monday a pleasant and
time honored custom is observed at the
White House in Washington. The grounds
are thrown open to the children of the city,
who come with their luncheons and baskets
of Easter eggs, and spend the day rolling
the latter down the sloping bank of turf.
This is called the Easter egg-rolling," and
is custom observed by thousands of hap
Ply children. The President and other dis
tinguished people visit the scene during the
day, and get much qualification out of it.
Miss Catharino Wolfe, New York wom-
an of large wealth, and who made many
benefactions during her life, leaves by her
win her collection of paintings, the finest
in this country, to the Metropolitan muse
UNI of art and cash endowment of $780,
600 for the same institution. She also left
S35O, 600 as an endowment to Grace church,
where she attended worship, and through
which many of her principal charities have
been made-and $3.50, 600 more in various
charities.
There is no better proof of the quality of
the reform which the postmaster general
is carrying out than in the report of errors
made by railway postal clerks During the
year 1886 the number of errors reported
in the railway mail service was 2120, 147.
During the five years, lSSl-S5, the average
number of errors reported was 95S, 630.
As these errors relate chiefly to sending let
tiers over the wrong routes and to the
wrong places, the vast increase of mistakes
furnishes a good basis for the complaints
which have been made of inefficient postal
service.
Senator Edmunds received letter lately
from little Savannah girl who had read
in a newspaper that he had ways of his
own for making soups and calvesfoot Jelly,
She wrote to him for information, enclosing
a sprig of jessamine, and got the following
reply "Dear Little Miss-I have your
note with the pretty iessamine flowers.
With the truthfulness of youth you believe
what the newspapers print, but they have
misled you in this instance. | do not know
how to make soup or calvesfoot Jelly. |
sometimes lllnk 1 know now 10 make DileIs
and laws, that, like soup, are sometimes di-
gestible, and, fear, sometimes not. Cook
cry is a real art, and hope you will learn
it perfectly, and grow up to be a true Amer
lean woman, knowing how TO do every
thing that makes home happy
A shocking accident happened in a coal
mine at St. Clair, Pa, near Pottsville Mon
day, the 18th inst. Miss Berlista Shaul of
Sharon Springs, n, Y, Nassar college
student, was visiting Miss Minnie Keiter of
St. Clair, fellow student, The two young
ladies', in company with two young men,
entered the mine 10 let Miss Shaul see the
operation of mining coal. The mine had
not been worked for a week and none but
the party of explorers We're inside at the
time. Soon there was IA heavy explosion,
and when men from neighboring slope
rushed in they found the party lying ON the
ground bruised and mangled Miss Keiter
died of her injuries the same evening, Miss
Shaul had a leg badly fractured, and was
terribly bruised and burned, but may sur
vive. Both the young men were terribly
hurt, but not fatally, 1t is supposed that
the party carried naked lamp and en-
countered a body of fire damp. The lady
victims are about 20 years old Miss Shaul
was 10 have been the valedictorian at the
/ coming commencement of Yassar college.